Ruth Strong pt 3 - Dance cards

When you love to dance, you save your dance cards.   It becomes obvious after studying these pages, that Ruth originally saved one dance card on each page in her original scrapbook.  Later on she would just add comments on subsequent dances that she attended.

Ruth Strong pt 2 - dances

 Ruth Strong was born 1 April 1910, the daughter of Louis H and Mary Strong, of Oakfield.
She married Lester Henning in 1934, and in 1945 they moved to Lamartine, where they became partners with her father, operating the Strong-Henning Grocery Store from 1952-1968.

As a young girl, Ruth kept a scrapbook, and filled it with her many momentos of life during the 1920's.  Dances, picnics, movies appear to be the life of a young girl, striking out into the world.

A favric sample of the dress that Ruth wore under her gown at graduation.

A listing of the dances that Ruth attended in 1928.

continuation of list of 1928 dances

Dates, locations and bands of the dances that Ruth attended in 1929.

continuation of Ruth's dance dates.

ruth strong, dances and dances

Ruth Strong pt 1 - programs and events

Ruth Strong was born in 1910, the daughter of Louis and Mary Strong.  The family lived in the town of Oakfield.  As a teenager in the 1920's, Ruth led a pretty active social life, and kept a scrapbook for her souvenirs.  She has ticket stubs, programs, and even cloth scraps from dresses she made.  The programs are quite an insight into entertainment for that era.
Thank you to Lynn Lawrence for allowing me to scan some of the pages of her grandmother's scrapbook.

The Garrick Theatre was located at 14-18 Sheboygan St.

full program

inside page of program

inside page of program

second program in scrapbook, folded, with written comments 

inside pages of program

scrapbook page with folded program, and comments.

unfolded program

This was a KKK rally held in Madison, but it was at the end of the Klan popularity in Wisconsin.  This rally was the final one held by the clan to recruit members. The Klan was already in decline by 1926, however, and had all but disappeared from Wisconsin by 1928.